Kazan'

Walking along the eastern shore of Kaban lake , is easy to see this beautiful mosque shimmering ,with its red -brick minaret with a green tulip dome. It was built in 1926 , during soviet times.I took a walk around the building and entered , obviously taking off my shoes.Inside , I met a very kind sir , that signed me the room of prayers , not so...

Baqi Urmanche was a famous tatar artist , sculptor , and one of the founder of tatar fine arts. The museum occupies an elegant house and has 2 floors. I could see Urmanches´s personal belongings , sculptures and some outstanding paintings, some of them representing the neighboring country , Kazakhstan , where he also lived . The most impressive...

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Kazan, Tatarstan capital, is a wonderful and exotic town, capital of Tatarstan. You can get there by boat through the river Volga, from Nizhni Novgorod, for instance (that is the way I reached Kazan...

Kazan is a capital of Tatarstan Republic, associated with Russian Federation as per Special Interstate Treatment in 1989. Population of Kazan is around 1,2 mln. people. It situated in a bank of Idel...